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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Ohne Titel
signed 'max ernst' (centre right)
oil and grattage on canvas
25 ½ x 21 in. (64.7 x 53.5 cm.)
Painted in 1928
Provenance
Hans [Jean] Arp, Clamart.
François Arp, Paris.
(Possibly) Mrs Theo van Doesburg, Paris.
Herbert M. Rothschild, New York.
E.V. Thaw & Co., New York, by 1963.
Burton Kleiner, Beverly Hills.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a gift from the above, by 1976; their sale, Sotheby's, Los Angeles, 21 June 1982, lot 147.
Acquired by the present owner, by 1986.
Literature
W. Spies, S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst, Œuvre Katalog, Werke 1925-1929, Cologne, 1976, no. 1284, p. 254 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Sète, Musée Paul Valéry, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Deux visions du surréalisme, June - November 2016, no. 25, pp. 116 & 221 (illustrated pp. 117 & 221; titled 'Composition').

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